ecause of the literary distance
between the current translations of the text (Dr. deLaurent's translation
included) of The Book of Nod, the original intent of the Book has been lost. It
is my theory, based on my own researches, that the stories of Caine and Abel,
Caine's curse,

and his subsequent meeting with Lilith are parables created to
tell the tale of the first Kindred in such a way that even the simplest of us
can understand them. Through my own scholarship, and drawing upon the work of
the fundamental Caine scholars in the world (including some captured writings by
a Black Hand worshipper of Caine), I have created a story which I believe
harkens back to the original parable of Caine.

In the time after humanity went
from a hunter/gatherer society to cultivating farm animals and developing
agriculture, there were two tribes, named for their chiefs., They were called
the people of Caine and the people of Abel. The people of Abel were herders and
animal husbanders, and were more primitive than the people of Caine. They
worshipped a great Sun God, who was a warrior who lived in the sky. The people
of Caine were agricultural, and were more civilized than the people of Abel.
Because it was so important to time the harvest, the people of Caine worshipped
the Moon Goddess, the Dark Mother who was both the fertility of Earth and the
mystery of the Moon.

Yet, not all of the people were
happy. Chief Abel attacked Caine's people, telling them that they were inferior
and cursed because they did not hunt like their Sun God hunted. Caine's people
did not know much about fighting, but Caine taught them how to use the sharp
things that they used to till the soil to kill. When Abel's people came back to
torment them again, Caine's people fought back. All of the men, women and
children of Abel were killed.

The Sun God of the people of Abel
then called them cursed as a people, and laid a blood-curse on all of them, that
they would wander without a home in the wilderness. He burned their villages and
salted their fields, and told all to turn away from the people of Caine.

The people of Caine were unable to
recover. They wandered in the curse for many weeks, until they had no food to
eat and had many troubles. Then the priestess of the Dark Mother, who lived
beyond the Moon, came. The priestess offered Caine's people respite, succor, and
surcease. She taught them magic, taught them how to hunt, and taught them to
drink blood.

The Sun God came to Chief Caine in
dreams, and told him and his people to return and subjugate themselves to the
will of people of Seth. Caine refused. Then the Sun God told him that all the
people of his tribe would be cursed forever, and it was so. But the Dark Mother
said that there would always be a way to overcome this curse: of the people of
Caine would come to Her, through her mystery, she would free them from the curse
of the Sun God.

In this parable, Caine's people
(and Caine) represent our need for civilization, the Humanitas that we
constantly seek. Abel's people (and Abel) represent our animal natures, our wild
selves, the Beast that lies within us. The Dark Mother represents the mystery
that guides our very existence: the magic of our blood, the power of
Disciplines. We must seek the mystery of Dark Mother while dealing with the
legacy left behind by the Sun God -- the curse. Ergo, "A Beast I am, lest a
Beast I become." Golconda is held out as a final goal, perhaps balancing all
these things and showing the transcendence of the Beast Within.